By Carlos Fernandez de Cossio on June 13, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Like any developing country, Cuba faces the disadvantages of an international economic order inherited from colonialism and neocolonialism, which perpetuates the subaltern status in the international system of those who suffer from underdevelopment, unequal exchange, and limits on the transfer of technology and capital from developed countries, most of them former colonial metropolises, beneficiaries of the regime of exploitation, plunder, and slavery that this regime represented. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on June 12, 2025
“we look for the poorest” photo: Bill Hackwell
“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, located in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), a joint initiative run by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The larger mission has treated over seven million patients in 33 countries since 2004. Local Nicaraguan doctors, trained by the Cubans, are now in charge in Ciudad Sandino. (more…)
By Laura Mor on June 12, 2025 from Havana
foto: Ina Fassbender
Gaza, Gaza! echoed on Tuesday at the Havana headquarters of the Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU), where representatives of Cuban civil society gathered in response to the call to condemn Israel’s new violation of international humanitarian law. (more…)
June 12, 2025 from Caracas
Colombia President Gustavo Petro
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has blamed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an orchestrated plot to overthrow Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Luis Caldera, the newly elected governor on May 25 in the northwestern state of Zulia, the president emphasized that “they have activated a plan to overthrow the government” of the Colombian leader. (more…)
By Jill Clark-Gollub on June 11, 2025
Left Photo: Inmate in Nicaragua receives diploma (19 Digital). Right Photo: Inmates dehumanized in El Salvador (El Salvador Presidency handout/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all vilify Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by equating him with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. (more…)
By John Perry on June 10, 2025
AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s re-election to “voters weary of crime”—even though murders rose sharply under his first administration.
Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist candidate in the mold of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez might be up against a neoliberal such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. It could hardly be otherwise, in a region with the world’s biggest gap between the richest and poorest. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 11, 2025
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves to supporters after the Supreme Court decision
In a decisive moment for Argentina’s political landscape, the Supreme Court has upheld former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s conviction in the Vialidad case, ratifying her six-year prison sentence. Given her age, she may request house arrest instead of serving time in prison. (more…)
Havana, June 5, 2025 (ACN)
Mayor Lee welcoming Cuban diplomats to Oakland,
The mayor of Oakland city in the US state of California, former democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee, reiterated her support for a change in US policy towards Cuba and her rejection of Washington’s over 60-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Caribbean Island nation. (more…)